Did the drug war give us ‘Breaking Bad?’ I thought it was the health insurance crisis. I always disliked the premise of the show. Do insurers owe some endless $ amount in benefits to pay for cancer treatment. It’s very expensive. It’s a moot point now, thanks to Obamacare, because those decisions are now made by government.

No one has brought it up either, but ‘Breaking Bad’ was, you guessed it, racist. Not enough blacks.

I’m waiting on BET to come out with their own similar TV show with some disadvantaged underprivileged at-risk urban youth who turns to a life of crime, or basketball, to promote social justice or health care reform.

“If the Empire doesn’t stop blowing up planets, we plan to send them a sternly worded letter. And good luck rebuilding that Death Star with all the sanctions we’re gonna throw at ‘em! Meanwhile, we’ve decided to discontinue the X-wing fighters, making for a leaner rebel force. Speaking of leaner, the empress has ordered a cutback in rations. Our new ‘smart-wing’ fighters just won’t accommodate Porkins-sized pilots.”

Libertarian philosophy doesn’t make any sense. Like, should anyone be able to own a nuclear weapon? And where would you buy one? Lowe’s?

No, buying from a retail outlet means you are paying too much. Even more so from those big-box stores because they have to pay for all that square footage somehow.

If you go to your town center, or if you live in a city go to a neighboring town center, and find some mom-and-pop shop and get one there. The customer service is usually a lot better AND you help out the local economy.

I remember the day in high school when a friend and I ran across plans for an atomic bomb. This was, like, 1974 or something. Before the Internet. Never could figure out where to buy the plutonium. Besides, I’d’ve had to picked butter beans all summer to come up with the money.

@ 22 Harvey …. yeah, but if you aren’t careful the shipping costs can actually make them more expensive than your local mom-and-pop outfit.

And I don’t about your town center, but mine has this awesome old pharmacy that still has a lunch counter so I make a trip out of it. I stop by and pick up a nuke, then go have a grilled cheese sandwich and a real cherry coke. And the lady over the grill who is easily over 200 years old has a cigarette hanging out of the corner of her mouth with a two-inch ash on the end that you just know is going to wind up in your food, yet somehow never does. I think she is a witch, but that is getting kind of far off topic…..

@24, JW– Fusion reactions don’t count because they don’t explode; but I would like to send the kid some old lithium batteries to help out. (I think that’s what he was using, if he’s the same guy I heard about awhile back.)

@26, Basil, did your parents have the deal with you that my parents did–pick one bucket and go the house to start shelling them while we finish up? Did they get a butter bean sheller and mess up that deal?

@29 Basil–but with tobacco you don’t have to bend over as far the next time (since you crop from the bottom up, assume we’re both talking flue-cured tobacco.

@30 JW–carelessness on my part; nuclear (fission) reactors don’t explode (except when they build up hydrogen gas). I was assuming the same would be true of fusion reactors, although David Weber shows different results.

CCO:
Oh, lotta folks worked tobacco, and got paid well (compared to picking butter beans), but I’ve disliked tobacco (smoking, smokeless) for years, so I never had anything to do with it. Missed out on some good money, but that’s just how I felt about it. Just me being me.

@34 JW, well, I could use a review myself since my basic background is a little thin in actual fusion reactor or atomic weapons design. Given a choice of the ones you specified, I’d probably start with Sears. Lowe’s is pretty good though.

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